单词	prostration
释义	prostratepros‧trate1 /ˈprɒstreɪt $ ˈprɑː-/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINprostrate1 Origin: 1300-1400 Latin past participle of prosternere, from sternere ‘to spread out, throw down’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES the nation's prostrate economy They found him lying prostrate on the floor. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Annes has fallen prostrate before the field. Everywhere doctors and nurses were bending over prostrate forms, and shouting orders and instructions. He lay prostrate before the Lord as his body was wracked with sobs. Pulling a torch from this pocket he played the beam across her prostrate form. The rocking had ceased and most of the congregation were prostrate. The stem is delicate, seldom branching, prostrate, and rooting as a marsh plant. Their crews are prostrate in the shade, trying to escape the excruciating, oven heat. When he left she'd been prostrate upon her bed. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► lying prostrate  They found him lying prostrate on the floor. ► prostrate body/figure/form COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► body · He flicked his wrist and sent it cracking high over Luke's prostrate body. ► form · Everywhere doctors and nurses were bending over prostrate forms, and shouting orders and instructions.· Over our prostrate forms the bullets are hissing and shells shrieking.· Pulling a torch from this pocket he played the beam across her prostrate form.· Landing over the first fence he crashed into the prostrate form of the faller Meon Valley and was brought down. 1lying on your front with your face towards the ground:  They found him lying prostrate on the floor.prostrate body/figure/form2too shocked, upset, weak etc to be able to do anythingprostrate with Julie was prostrate with grief after her father’s death.—prostration /prɒˈstreɪʃən $ prɑː-/ noun [countable, uncountable]
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